SKU: HL.44005498

ISBN 9789043122214. UPC: 073999370744. 9.0x12.0x0.221 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

This book contains a selection of famous classical pieces that have been carefully adapted for the marimba. Composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimsky Korsakov and Clementi are all included. The book enables marimba players with reasonable playing experience to perform these splendid masterpieces. The pieces are ordered by difficulty and, with the exception of a few pieces at the end of the book which require four mallets, are all playable with two mallets. Musical style and good technique are essential for a good performance. In addition to making wonderful concert pieces the exciting arrangements in this book will also make a most useful teaching tool.

Dit boek bevat een aantal meesterwerken uit de klassieke muziek die zorgvuldig zijn bewerkt voor marimba. Componisten als Bach, Mozart, Beethoven maar ook Vivaldi, Rimsky-Korsakov en Clementi komen aan bod. Enigszins geoefende marimbaspelerszullen prima met deze juweeltjes uit de voeten kunnen. Daarbij zijn stijl en een goede uitvoering belangrijk. De meeste werken zijn speelbaar met twee mallets, maar achter in het boek zijn ook enkele stukken bewerkt voorvier mallets. De werken zijn gerangschikt naar moeilijkheidsgraad. Een must voor de ambitieuze muzikant en een ideaal hulpmiddel voor de les- en uitvoeringspraktijk.

Masters on Marimba enthalt eine Auswahl an beruhmten klassischen Stucken, die sorgfaltig fur das Marimbaphon bearbeitet wurden. Komponisten wie Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakow und Clementi sind hier vertreten. Mit diesem Buch bekommen Spieler mit etwas Erfahrung die Gelegenheit, diese Meisterwerke zu spielen. Die Stucke sind nach Schwierigkeitsgrad geordnet und konnen - bis auf einige Stucke am Ende des Buches, die vier Schlagel erfordern - mit zwei Schlageln gespielt werden. Stilistisch und technisch gutes Spiel ist entscheidend fur einen guten Vortrag.

Masters on Marimba une selection de celebres œuvres classiques de compositeurs tels que Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov et Clementi. La plupart des compositions se jouent avec deux baguettes, a l'exception de quelques oeuvres qui ont ete arrangees pour quatre baguettes.

Masters on Marimba e una selezione di celebri opere classiche di compositori quali Marais, Senaille, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Rimski-Korsakov e Clementi. La maggior parte delle composizioni e da suonare con due bacchette, ad eccezione di brani arrangiati per quattro bacchette. Con Masters of Marimba affronterete uno specifico repertorio che vi permettera di affinare la vostra musicalita, il vostro tocco e la precisione ritmica. Potrete poi esibirvi in pubblico dimostrando come anche la marimba possa suonare da solista al pari di altri strumenti, per intensita di suono e morbidezza d'espressione.

SKU: CF.YAS13F

ISBN 9780825848339. UPC: 798408048334. 8.5 X 11 inches. Key: G major.

IApart from some of his Sonatinas, Opus 36, Clementi's life and music are hardly known to the piano teachers and students of today. For example, in addition to the above mentioned Sonatinas, Clementi wrote sixty sonatas for the piano, many of them unjustly neglected, although his friend Beethoven regarded some of them very highly. Clementi also wrote symphonies (some of which he arranged as piano sonatas), a substantial number of waltzes and other dances for the piano as well as sonatas and sonatinas for piano four-hands.In addition to composing, Clementi was a much sought after piano teacher, and included among his students John Field (Father of the 'Nocturne'), and Meyerbeer.In his later years, Clementi became a very successful music publisher, publishing among other works the first English edition of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, in the great composer's own arrangement for the piano, as well as some of his string quartets. Clementi was also one of the first English piano manufacturers to make pianos with a metal frame and string them with wire.The Sonatina in C, Opus 36, No. 1 was one of six such works Clementi wrote in 1797. He must have been partial to these little pieces (for which he also provided the fingerings), since they were reissued (without the fingering) by the composer shortly after 1801. About 1820, he issued ''the sixth edition, with considerable improvements by the author;· with fingerings added and several minor changes, among which were that many of them were written an octave higher.IIIt has often been said, generally by those unhampered by the facts, that composers of the past (and, dare we add, the present?), usually handled their financial affairs with their public and publishers with a poor sense of business acumen or common sense. As a result they frequently found themselves in financial straits.Contrary to popular opinion, this was the exception rather than the rule. With the exception of Mozart and perhaps a few other composers, the majority of composers then, as now, were quite successful in their dealings with the public and their publishers, as the following examples will show.It was not unusual for 18th- and 19th-century composers to arrange some of their more popular compositions for different combinations of instruments in order to increase their availability to a larger music-playing public. Telemann, in the introduction to his seventy-two cantatas for solo voice and one melody instrument (flute, oboe or violin, with the usual continua) Der Harmonische Gottesdienst, tor example, suggests that if a singer is not available to perform a cantata the voice part could be played by another instrument. And in the introduction to his Six Concertos and Six Suites for flute, violin and continua, he named four different instrumental combinations that could perform these pieces, and actually wrote out the notes for the different possibilities. Bach arranged his violin concertos for keyboard, and Beethoven not only arranged his Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 14, No. 1 for string quartet, he also transposed it to the key of F. Brahm's well-known Quintet in F Minor for piano and strings was his own arrangement of his earlier sonata for two pianos, also in F Minor.IIIWe come now to Clementi. It is well known that some of his sixty piano sonatas were his own arrangements of some of his lost symphonies, and that some of his rondos for piano four-hands were originally the last movements of his solo sonatas or piano trios.In order to make the first movement of his delightful Sonatina in C, Opus 36, No. 1 accessible to young string players, I have followed the example established by the composer himself by arranging and transposing one of his piano compositions from one medium (the piano) to another. (string instruments). In order to simplify the work for young string players, in the process of adapting it to the new medium it was necessary to transpose it from the original key of C to G, thereby doing away with some of the difficulties they would have encountered in the original key. The first violin and cello parts are similar to the right- and left-hand parts of the original piano version. The few changes I have made in these parts have been for the convenience of the string players, but in no way do they change the nature of the music.Since the original implied a harmonic framework in many places, I have added a second violin and viola part in such a way that they not only have interesting music to play, but also fill in some of the implied harmony without in any way detracting from the composition's musical value. Occasionally, it has been necessary to raise or lower a few passages an octave or to modify others slightly to make them more accessible for young players.It is hoped that the musical value of the composition has not been too compromised, and that students and teachers will come to enjoy this little piece in its new setting as much as pianists have in the original one. This arrangement may also be performed by a solo string quartet. When performed by a string orchestra, the double bass part may be omitted.- Douglas TownsendString editing by Amy Rosen.

About Carl Fischer Young String Orchestra Series

This series of Grade 2/Grade 2.5 pieces is designed for second and third year ensembles. The pieces in this series are characterized by:
--Occasionally extending to third position
--Keys carefully considered for appropriate difficulty
--Addition of separate 2nd violin and viola parts
--Viola T.C. part included
--Increase in independence of parts over beginning levels

SKU: FL.FX072886

Instruments: 1 Solo Piano; Difficuly Level: Grade 4; Duration: 6 mn 10 s; Musical Style: Classical, Educational; Category: Original Composition, Republished Master Piece; Composer: Muzio CLEMENTI;.

SKU: AP.43763S

UPC: 038081496429. English.

Students will learn cut time, rhythmic accuracy, how to achieve clean staccato technique, musical form, and an idea of classical style in this engaging piece. Just plain fun to play! (1:55).

SKU: FJ.W9465

UPC: 024144440201. English.

Small hands will be able to play this three-movement sonatina that is excellent preparation for the easy Mozart or Clementi sonatinas. Each cheerful movement is two pages long and can be learned quickly.

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